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Archived Lecture: Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World

Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture presented by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

Archived Lecture: Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World

Date: Feb. 21, 2019
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 

 

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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D.

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D.

Director of The Earth Institute, the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University; the Special Advisor to the U.D. Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals; and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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